Selected publications, prizes and events:

Forthcoming, 2027: I’d Forgotten About the Boxes: A Conversation on Play, Care and Creative Practice, essay/creative life-writing chapter, co-authored with Dr Lina Hakim (Kingston Uni), in ‘Telling Lives: Mothers and Life Writing’, Demeter Press

2026: deer and crow and out, poems, in mnemotope magazine, issue 9, Bog Bodies Press

2026: ‘The Myth Eaters’, Anna co-edited this poetry zine (which also featured two of Anna’s poems), released to mark ‘The Myth Eaters’ exhibition and performance event, RuptureXIBIT, London, Feb 2026

2026: h for ghost, poetry pamphlet, published by Salò Press

2025:neither smoking nor dancing, poem, published by Ink Sweat & Tears

2025:Writing Motherhood: An Embodied Understanding of our Own Oppression, online lecture (available to rent), The Feminist Lecture Program

2025:left to the glass and wedding cake, poems, in The Amphibian Literary & Art Journal issue 9

2025: Editorial in Studies in the Maternal Journal: Affect, Creativity and Motherhood special issue, Anna co-edited this issue with Anna Argirò

2025:back, poem, 2nd place winner of the Turning Points Poetry Competition, Black Cat Poetry Press (will be published in their anthology in 2026)

2025:Motherhood: A ghost story, full-length poetry work, published by Broken Sleep Books

2025:Writing Motherhood and Violence, poetry reading and paper presented at ‘Making the Future: Addressing Socialisation of Violence Against Women and Girls’ symposium, Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival, June 2025

2025:on accident (for Adrienne Rich), poem, published by Ink Sweat & Tears

2025:a ghost and sometimes momentarily, poems/artworks, exhibited in ‘Sorry About the Mess’ exhibition, 8th-30th March, Bow Arts, Shaftesbury Avenue. Anna also delivered a poetry workshop as part of the exhibition

2025:Motherhood: on haunting and failure, PhD thesis, Creative Writing, Kingston University

2024:Visceral Bodies Special issue of Studies in the Maternal Journal, Anna has co-edited this special issue, based on a symposium they co-organised in 2023. The issue also features Anna’s poem sometimes momentarily, sometimes for years

2024:Familiar, poem, published in t’ART Magazine Winter online issue

2024:Left to the glass to tell me: A poetic exploration of the post birthing-body, poetry reading and paper presented at London Conference in Critical Thought, Greenwich University, June 2024

2023:But Also Flesh and Salt, poem, published in Motherlore Magazine issue 2 (previously published in The Contemporary Journal)

2023:Some other register, poem, published on Dx: Diagnosis and Writing

2023:Life-writing and the Ghost, poetry reading and workshop at ‘Language Matters: Social & Environmental Justice in Creative-Critical Practice’ symposium, Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary Gallery, July 2023

2023:Visceral Bodies Symposium, an interdisciplinary and cross-institution symposium co-organised by Anna and colleague Anna Argirò at Kingston University, April 2023

2023:Creativity and Motherhood in Lockdown: An Ongoing Conversation, creative writing zine produced with colleague Dr Lina Hakim for the CAMC Conference, Coventry, March 2023

2022:But Also Flesh and Salt, poem, published in The Contemporary Journal, Nottingham Contemporary

2022:Failure: the ghost and the mother, article published in Alluvium Journal special issue, May 2022, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies

2021:Failure: the ghost and the mother, paper presented at the BACLS-WHN (British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies) Virtual Conference, Sept 2021

2021:An Intersection of Motherhood and Chronic Illness, essay/creative life-writing chapter in, From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press

2021:Cascading Transitions: Becoming a Writer and Engaging with Neurodiversity in Response to Motherhood, essay/creative life-writing chapter in ‘Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders’

2021:Anna was awarded a place on the ‘Care of’ Creative Writing Summer School, Nottingham Trent University, July 2021

2021: Anna curated an online discussion event on ‘Failure’ for the Race/Gender Matters Research Group, Kingston University, Jan 2021

2020:I so wanted to ask you…, video reading of a poetry piece made for Writers’ Centre Kingston (online) event on Hauntology, Dec 2021

2019:Illness/Parenting/Writing, creative life-writing performance at Writers’ Centre Kingston event on Literary Health, Dec 2019

2019:The Role of ‘Place’ in My Creative Life-Writing Practice, paper presented at the Genos / Matter / Theory Conference, Race/Gender Matters Research Group, Kingston University, June 2019

2018:Cascading transitions: becoming a writer and engaging with neurodiversity in response to motherhood, paper presented at the Women in Transition Conference, Kings and Oxford Universities, Oct 2018

2018:Objects of a Maternal Haunting, creative life-writing chapter in 'Everyday World-Making: Towards an Understanding of Affect and Mothering', Demeter Press

2016:A Maternal Haunting, article for MAMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)